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    <td class="head-ltitle">WABT(1)</td>
    <td class="head-vol">General Commands Manual</td>
    <td class="head-rtitle">WABT(1)</td>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="NAME"><a class="permalink" href="#NAME">NAME</a></h1>
<p class="Pp"><code class="Nm">wasm-validate</code> &#x2014;
    <span class="Nd">validate a file in the WebAssembly binary format</span></p>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="SYNOPSIS"><a class="permalink" href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></h1>
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    <td><code class="Nm">wasm-validate</code></td>
    <td>[options] <var class="Ar">file</var></td>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="DESCRIPTION"><a class="permalink" href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></h1>
<p class="Pp"><code class="Nm">wasm-validate</code> Read a file in the
    WebAssembly binary format, and validate it.</p>
<p class="Pp">The options are as follows:</p>
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  <dt id="help"><a class="permalink" href="#help"><code class="Fl">--help</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Print this help message</dd>
  <dt id="version"><a class="permalink" href="#version"><code class="Fl">--version</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Print version information</dd>
  <dt id="v"><a class="permalink" href="#v"><code class="Fl">-v</code></a>,
    <code class="Fl">--verbose</code></dt>
  <dd>Use multiple times for more info</dd>
  <dt id="enable-exceptions"><a class="permalink" href="#enable-exceptions"><code class="Fl">--enable-exceptions</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Enable Experimental exception handling</dd>
  <dt id="disable-mutable-globals"><a class="permalink" href="#disable-mutable-globals"><code class="Fl">--disable-mutable-globals</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Disable Import/export mutable globals</dd>
  <dt id="disable-saturating-float-to-int"><a class="permalink" href="#disable-saturating-float-to-int"><code class="Fl">--disable-saturating-float-to-int</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Disable Saturating float-to-int operators</dd>
  <dt id="disable-sign-extension"><a class="permalink" href="#disable-sign-extension"><code class="Fl">--disable-sign-extension</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Disable Sign-extension operators</dd>
  <dt id="disable-simd"><a class="permalink" href="#disable-simd"><code class="Fl">--disable-simd</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Disable SIMD support</dd>
  <dt id="enable-threads"><a class="permalink" href="#enable-threads"><code class="Fl">--enable-threads</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Enable Threading support</dd>
  <dt id="enable-function-references"><a class="permalink" href="#enable-function-references"><code class="Fl">--enable-function-references</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Enable Typed function references</dd>
  <dt id="disable-multi-value"><a class="permalink" href="#disable-multi-value"><code class="Fl">--disable-multi-value</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Disable Multi-value</dd>
  <dt id="enable-tail-call"><a class="permalink" href="#enable-tail-call"><code class="Fl">--enable-tail-call</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Enable Tail-call support</dd>
  <dt id="disable-bulk-memory"><a class="permalink" href="#disable-bulk-memory"><code class="Fl">--disable-bulk-memory</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Disable Bulk-memory operations</dd>
  <dt id="disable-reference-types"><a class="permalink" href="#disable-reference-types"><code class="Fl">--disable-reference-types</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Disable Reference types (externref)</dd>
  <dt id="enable-annotations"><a class="permalink" href="#enable-annotations"><code class="Fl">--enable-annotations</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Enable Custom annotation syntax</dd>
  <dt id="enable-code-metadata"><a class="permalink" href="#enable-code-metadata"><code class="Fl">--enable-code-metadata</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Enable Code metadata</dd>
  <dt id="enable-gc"><a class="permalink" href="#enable-gc"><code class="Fl">--enable-gc</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Enable Garbage collection</dd>
  <dt id="enable-memory64"><a class="permalink" href="#enable-memory64"><code class="Fl">--enable-memory64</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Enable 64-bit memory</dd>
  <dt id="enable-multi-memory"><a class="permalink" href="#enable-multi-memory"><code class="Fl">--enable-multi-memory</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Enable Multi-memory</dd>
  <dt id="enable-extended-const"><a class="permalink" href="#enable-extended-const"><code class="Fl">--enable-extended-const</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Enable Extended constant expressions</dd>
  <dt id="enable-all"><a class="permalink" href="#enable-all"><code class="Fl">--enable-all</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Enable all features</dd>
  <dt id="no-debug-names"><a class="permalink" href="#no-debug-names"><code class="Fl">--no-debug-names</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Ignore debug names in the binary file</dd>
  <dt id="ignore-custom-section-errors"><a class="permalink" href="#ignore-custom-section-errors"><code class="Fl">--ignore-custom-section-errors</code></a></dt>
  <dd>Ignore errors in custom sections</dd>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="EXAMPLES"><a class="permalink" href="#EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a></h1>
<p class="Pp">Validate binary file test.wasm</p>
<p class="Pp"></p>
<div class="Bd Bd-indent"><code class="Li">$ wasm-validate
  test.wasm</code></div>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="SEE_ALSO"><a class="permalink" href="#SEE_ALSO">SEE
  ALSO</a></h1>
<p class="Pp"><a class="Xr" href="wasm-decompile.1.html">wasm-decompile(1)</a>,
    <a class="Xr" href="wasm-interp.1.html">wasm-interp(1)</a>,
    <a class="Xr" href="wasm-objdump.1.html">wasm-objdump(1)</a>,
    <a class="Xr" href="wasm-stats.1.html">wasm-stats(1)</a>,
    <a class="Xr" href="wasm-strip.1.html">wasm-strip(1)</a>,
    <a class="Xr" href="wasm2c.1.html">wasm2c(1)</a>,
    <a class="Xr" href="wasm2wat.1.html">wasm2wat(1)</a>,
    <a class="Xr" href="wast2json.1.html">wast2json(1)</a>,
    <a class="Xr" href="wat-desugar.1.html">wat-desugar(1)</a>,
    <a class="Xr" href="wat2wasm.1.html">wat2wasm(1)</a>,
    <a class="Xr" href="spectest-interp.1.html">spectest-interp(1)</a></p>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="BUGS"><a class="permalink" href="#BUGS">BUGS</a></h1>
<p class="Pp">If you find a bug, please report it at
  <br/>
  <a class="Lk" href="https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/issues">https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/issues</a>.</p>
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    <td class="foot-date">September 23, 2025</td>
    <td class="foot-os">Debian</td>
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